3 books based mostly on Yechury’s writings on tradition, media, and secularism launched | India Information

Yechury handed away on September 12 at AIIMS, Delhi.

Former CPI (M) normal secretary Prakash Karat launched the books within the presence of economist Prabhat Patnaik, emeritus professor at JNU’s Centre for Financial Research and Planning C P Chandrashekhar, SAHMAT’s Ram Rahman, Advocate Raju Ramachandran and Loklahar editor Rajendra Sharma.

“Sitaram printed What’s Hindu Rashtra in March 1993, months after the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Sitaram made a severe try to know what these forces are… who led the Ram temple motion and demolished the Babri Masjid… the RSS. He understood that the demolition of the Babri Masjid was the start of the rise of the Hindutva forces to seize energy,” mentioned Karat:

He added that Yechury’s writings mentioned M S Golwalkar’s We Or Our Nationhood Outlined as “the handbook” for the RSS and traced the RSS ideologue’s concepts of “racial purity”. He recalled how after studying Yechury’s essay, authorized luminary A G Noorani had handled him to a biryani.

On Yechury’s scientific outlook, Karat mentioned his “understanding of science stunned me, as he was a scholar of economics”. That scientific outlook additionally made Yechury say that the Hindutva forces are forces of unreason, Karat added.

Ramachandran, a good friend of Yechury’s, recalled his “curious mixture of Deccani accent with a twang of Stephanian slang”. Recollecting with a contact of humour, he mentioned Yechury would borrow his notes however whereas “he bought a primary, I bought a second”.

Rahman spoke about Yechury’s contribution to the organisation, saying it might not have survived with out the CPI(M) chief.

Patnaik described Yechury as “one amongst good educational minds who selected to turn out to be whole-timers of the communist motion”. Chandrasekhar mentioned the three books had been put out to have fun the lifetime of Yechury. Editor Sharma mentioned the contents of Yechury’s writings.